The Lord of the Rings is the holy grail of epic fantasy, both in print and on the big screen. When I heard Peter Jackson (originally Guillermo del Toro) was bringing us The Hobbit as a prequel, I was naturally excited. I grew less excited when I heard it was being made into two films, and even read more

When Horse Became Saw is a beautiful, gut-wrenching memoir from writer Anthony Macris about his family’s battle with autism. His son Alex was a seemingly healthy baby boy that suddenly and inexplicably (like so many autism sufferers) fell into a frightening and unstoppable regression at around 18 months. He stopped engaging with the world as read more

In 1971, the Perron family moved into a big old farm house on Rhode Island. What happened to them there was apparently so terrifying that the world’s most famous “demonologists”, Ed and Lorraine Warren, decided to keep silent about the haunting…until now. At least that’s the way The Conjuring, directed by Aussie James Wan (Saw, read more

I like my burgers, and few places make burgers like Brodburger in Canberra. I was sceptical at first, considering that Brodburger is served out of a dodgy looking ‘food caravan’ in the parking lot of Bowen Park. But we were on a high after Questacon and in need of a good feed, so we drove read more

Daily Archives: June 17, 2009

PS: Still in Greece, went to the Peloponnese today, really awesome (even with the scorching heat). Going to Delphi for another day trip tomorrow. Have so much that I want to report but the Internets here are expensive or limited, so it will have to wait!